Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-21
hoe KILLING.
New Machine when Dispatches -Four
Thousand P1rksrs Each Day.
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New Machine which Dispatches -Four
Thousand P1rk4Ts Each Day.
Philadelphia News.
3 -Four thousand hogs day can be killed
cleaned and placed in the refrigerators al
s the hog killing establishment of the Phila
delphia stock yards. This is, of course,
due to perfected machinery, and forms g
striking contrast to the old-time up
s country methods, where it took two men,
with oHe barrel Of cider and two days
time, to get away with a single pig.
E A News reporter visited the place this
s week and witnessed the process. The
q squealing porkers are driven over a
bridge, which enters the second floor and
tue killing house. They are there stored
in pens made If galvanized tubing, and
having capacity Of 1000.
From these general pens limited mum
Der OF twenty are transferred to smaller
pen, and here the hind leg of the unfortu.
mates ls surrounded by chain with 9
book in one end snd small steel wheel
aa the iother The chain is thrown
around the leg and the hook set In a link,
8 when tee pig is raised by lever and the
wheel is placed in single overhead track
On this track the animal to be killed is
pushed along until he comes to the
Sacktr," whose long, keen knife and
9lfecislon Of thrust soon ends its misery.
3Ahother lever then unhOuks the chain and
Piggy drops through trap into the caul-
4 lfon OF boiling water, where he re-
mains just long enough to soften the
4'ough hide that surrounds his bristling
Ergrn ba no Sc
70 tue scraper, which is the special fea-
ure OF the establishment. It is Phila-
&leIphls patent, and can scrspe twenty
feVen per minute so clean that it is i'm
possible to find more than a small
PAINFUL of hair sitter the pig has been put
afough it. But the best machine will
eaVe some few bristles still sticking in
ae SKIN. Hence the next destination OF
sH Fork is the shaver's table, where he
ies and has the few remaining hairs
aettIy scraped from his body. at the
ame time the legs sre cut in such a way
70 enable the hog to hang by his
ue"s from the wooden gambrels that
.e oalanced on wheel, which also runs
" an overhead single track. This
etnead track system is an adapta-
OF the method employed
rolling mills, and 1t was first
80 IN slaughter houses in this city,
.sfe 1t hiss now 0een part of every
se establishment for the last thirty
als' Its advantage lies in the fact that
REDUCTION Of friction makes it posi-
manage otherwise unwieidy weight
comparatively small expenditure
strength. 1t hiss been brought to
~ pitch of perfection that half
Eoonn ooy can easily transfer the largest
Hom-one part of the building to an
80, and the system of switches, ex-
Dsly simple in construction, makes
,p'oSslole to alter the destination with
EI!le or no effort,
q er The pig has been put on the gam
IN, lie next comes into the "gutters' F"
-, and the skill Of these men is
nhnlng. a good "gutter" can easily
Al three pigs per minute. When
ut The pig is pushed until he reaches
gu oI the track that is connected
pair of scales that are balanced
reference to the weight of the gam
~ ana here his exac. weight is taken
registered.
the scales he is sent down the
aao either switched off to the big
sefators, where the pigs that are not